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Sony XQD Memory Cards Operate at 125 MB/s Read/Write

Anyone who thought Lexar Media's 1000x CompactFlash cards were fast may want to take a look at the ones Sony has just announced. They may not be quite as fast as Lexar's CF at accessing data, but they trump them by being as quick to write as they are to read. Dubbed XQD, the memory cards get their name f...

6 January 2012
03:30 GMT

Lexar 1000x CompactFlash Cards Work at 150MB/s

One would say that there already are very fast memory cards, with or without huge storage capacities to match, but Lexar decided they just weren't fast enough.Thus it was that the company came forth and announced the Lexar Professional 1000x CompactFlash (CF) cards.Available in capacities of 16GB, 32GB, 64GB an...

5 January 2012
11:10 GMT

CFA To Use PCI Express to Make 500 MB/s Memory Cards

It seems that the CompactFlash Association has decided to start moving faster in development of new, high-speed memory cards, so it established a new group meant to develop a new format, one that will be both better and significantly different from the current one.Makers of storage solutions have been releasing memo...

30 November 2010
05:24 GMT

New Transcend CompactFlash Cards Redefine Reliability

It wasn't all that long ago that Transcend unleashed its Class 10 and Class 4 SDHC Cards and the company is already making its next move on this market for highly compact storage solutions. What the outfit did just a short time ago was announce the availability of its newest collection of CompactFlash memory ca...

3 August 2010
03:40 GMT

PQI Boosts Its CF Card Capacity to 64GB

Power Quotient International may not have the habit of showing off a new and innovative device every week, but when it does enter the spotlight, it seems to make a point of leaving a lasting impression on its audience. This is suggested by its latest move on the Flash storage front. Just a short while ago, PQI came o...

23 July 2010
03:35 GMT

CompactFlash CF5.1 Specification Detailed

Though SDHC and SDXC cards are prominent on the market for small form factor storage devices, CompactFlash cards have actually become quite popular, and even preferred in some instances. Such cards are well thought of because they actually read and write data at very high speeds compared to competing solutions. The ...

13 July 2010
04:40 GMT

Lexar Media's 600x and 300x CF Cards Start Shipping

Regardless of how experienced a photographer is, and how quickly they can get a good angle for a picture, skill always needs a camera on the same level. The camera also relies on specially designed storage cards, whose writing speed ultimately determines how good the device is at taking photos in rapid succession. Th...

28 April 2010
04:56 GMT

CFA Announces Availability of CF5.0 Specification

CompactFlash cards are generally used in such devices as digital cameras, heart monitors, data recorders, slot machines, defibrillators and single-board computers. These memory cards are also responsible for the rapid advancements in digital photography, a field that is set to only grow now that the CompactFlash Asso...

22 February 2010
07:08 GMT

Lexar Pushes Speed Of Its CF Cards to 233X

It looks like Lexar has had quite a lot of surprises in store for this year's Photokina. After announcing the launch of a Kodak-branded SDHC card and adopting Eye-Fi technology for one of its own cards a short while ago, the flash memory manufacturer has just announced a significant improvement to its Profession...

24 September 2008
15:21 GMT

SanDisk Presents Faster, Larger Extreme IV CompactFlash Cards

Photokina is not only an event where the most important names in digital photography showcase their products, but it's also a very good opportunity for memory card makers to announce new and improved models, designed for the various camera segments out there. We've seen yesterday some pretty interesting ann...

24 September 2008
03:01 GMT

Pretec Develops World's Largest and World's Fastest CompactFlash Memory Cards

As some of you might remember, Pretec launched back at CES one of the world's largest CompactFlash cards, providing 48 GB of storage space. Then, at CeBIT 2008, one of the company's representatives talked to Softpedia about the speed of their cards, which was far superior even to SanDisk's most impress...

23 September 2008
15:01 GMT

Transcend Rolls Out a 32GB 133X CompactFlash Card

Although most professional photographers would rather pack several 4 GB CF memory cards than a single, large capacity model (for fear of possible breakdowns), the most important manufacturers of such storage products keep pumping larger and larger versions on the market, probably in a competition among themselves rat...

21 January 2008
13:06 GMT

Yet Another "World's Fastest" 16GB UDMA CompactFlash Card Hits the Shelves

Although 16 GB UDMA CompactFlash cards are not exactly growing on trees, it seems that they're becoming increasingly popular among semi-pro and professional photographer, due to their high access speeds, large capacities and, more importantly, to the emergence of digital cameras that can actually take advantage ...

7 December 2007
08:50 GMT

A-DATA's New Memory Cards Are Roomier than Old HDDs

Flash-based memory cards have become extremely popular over the past few years, as they provide very large data storage capacities in extremely small and portable form factors. And that seems to be exactly the case with A-DATA's latest offering, a trio of memory cards that provide huge storage spaces, even accor...

5 September 2007
08:26 GMT

Convergent Design Announces the World's First CompactFlash-based HD Field Recorder

As high-definition is becoming more and more popular with the consumers, an increasingly higher number of manufacturers come up with all sorts of solutions for playing back or recording HD content. However, while the number of products from the first category is quite large, the same can't be said about the seco...

30 August 2007
10:56 GMT


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